A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.

He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.

The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness.

There are all kinds of sexualities. There are all kinds of ways that people express their sexuality.

Learn what you are good at and exploit it in service to others.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?

Don't listen to anybody who's trying to bring you down. There's so much negativity in the world. If you really want something, then you go for it.

There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to them, they'll talk back to you.